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So I'll route my CI integration tests that test communication from application to database through the loadbalancer? And I'll teach the loadbalancer to talk to itself to talk to the autoscaling web backends it needs to talk to because only the loadbalancer has a valid certificate? Nice brain-knot.

And talking about security risks, wildcard certs are especially dangerous and should be forbidden from ever existing. They just lead to "copy it everywhere"-keys that, sooner or later, will leak. And that won't be revoked or replaced, because of course everything will break at once.

Oh, and the certificate errors will also come with external CAs. Chain too long? Error in some browsers. ECC signature? Error in some browsers. Chain with different paths? Error in some browsers. 4096bit certificate somewhere? Error in some browsers. Two different valid roots? Error in some browsers.